 | Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 452 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once, with irresistible violence, upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | John Young Sargent - 1873 - 188 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | 1878 - 312 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | James Moir - 1880 - 204 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of soma of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 618 Seiten
...nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them." As it is, the people of the capital, and not the northern savages, have made the most use of their... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 452 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast... | |
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But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the... 
